TakeMe2Space plans to launch the MOI-1A satellite on 2 October aboard the SpaceX Transporter-18 mission. The 14 kg spacecraft is equipped with computing power of 117 trillion operations per second, 2 TB of storage and a nine-band multispectral imager.
The main task is to run artificial intelligence models directly in orbit. The satellite will process Earth observation data on site and transmit ready-made insights to Earth rather than raw images.
“Satellites collect enormous volumes of data, but much of it still has to be delivered to Earth for processing. With MOI-1A, clients will be able to run their AI models directly in orbit and receive the insights they need without downloading all the raw material,” noted TakeMe2Space founder and CEO Ronak Kumar Samantray.
The new spacecraft continues the work of the MOI-TD demonstrator, which was tested in 2024. To date, the company has attracted 23 client for orbital inference services.
The mission will be an important step toward the commercial provision of such services and the development of computing infrastructure in space. How will this affect the speed of obtaining useful information from space?
Applications include agricultural monitoring, mining and supply chain analysis. Reducing the volume of transmitted data could make space services more accessible to businesses.
